The ruthless unity in the culture industry is evidence of what will happen in politics. Marked differentiations such as those of A and B films, or of stories in magazines in different price ranges, depend not so much on subject matter as on classifying, organizing, and labelling consumers. Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer, The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception

It is increasingly apparent that the ominous insights of Adorno and Horkheimer into the culture industry as precursor to absolute political homogeneity have come to fruition in our times. The observations of these two German political philosophers and their colleagues can greatly assist any attempt to interpret the elaborate theatrics known as liberal democracy.